Protect our land, water, habitat, wildlife and people

The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) just posted comments on Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC’s: (1) first draft environmental resource report (RR) – project description filed on December 1, 2014, (2) RR 10 – Summary of Alternatives filed with FERC on December 1, 2014, and additional alternative routes filed with FERC on February 18, 2015. FERC has requested that MVP clarify discrepancies in their earlier reports as well as issues raised in the comments that have been filed with FERC to date. Additionally, FERC has asked MVP to provide missing information they deem necessary to begin an environmental impact statement.

EQT/NextEra will be hosting its mandated Open Houses beginning tonight in Gretna. Open Houses, while positioned as ways for the pipeline company to “engage” with the local community, are really held to convince citizens that the pipeline is a good thing and for the companies to learn as much as they can about the issues “on the ground” so they can use these to their advantage for their filing to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Scoping meetings are held by FERC later in the process and are primarily focused on the environmental impacts of the proposed pipeline.

To be forewarned is to be forearmed! For more information on the Open Houses and Scoping Meetings, please Read the Article

About Preserve the NRV

Preserve the NRV is a citizen advocacy group working to stop the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline. The group will work with the citizens of the New River Valley, as well as all of the impacted regions in Virginia and West Virginia to advance a shared mission of stopping the pipeline project and, if necessary, advise on any possible construction routes and sites for the proposed pipeline that would diminish the negative consequence of the project on the environment, land, and citizens of Virginia and West Virginia.